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Alan Kay Quotes
It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools.
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It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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