A Belief System for the 21st Century

Surface level close up on an abstract engineering blueprint drawing of blue striped gear mechanism, with shiny metallic gears in the foreground

Authors:

Alan Kay

Brief Bio: American computer scientist

Lived: 1940-

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Quotations

“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible”

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do…. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws.

1971 from the remarks “Meeting of the Palo Alto Research Center”

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