Alan Kay Quotes

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.

I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!