Alan Kay Quotes

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I would like to suggest to you that you 'grab life by the horns' and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. Do not let life control you. Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Are you making life or is life making you?