Alan Kay

computer scientist

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

• If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
  • Source: Chris Crawford on Game Design

• By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
  • Source: "Alan Kay by Scott Gasch"