Alan Kay Quotes

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

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

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

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

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

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

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

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

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

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.