Alan Kay Quotes

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

To innovate is not to reform.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

I believe in being an innovator.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

If it works, it's obsolete.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.

Innovation means change.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.