Alan Kay

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.