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KidHackers Entwickler von Smalltalk. Entdecker der Objektorientiertheit.

For most of recorded history, the interactions of humans with their media have been primarily nonconversational in the sense that marks on paper, paint on walls, even "motion" pictures and television do not change in response to the viewer's wished. A mathematical formulation -- which may symbolize the essence of an entire universe -- once put down on paper, remains static and requires the reader to expand on its possibilities.[...]
The essence of a medium is very much dependent on the way messages are embedded, changed and viewed.Alan Kay

• http://www.mprove.de/diplom/referencesKay.html

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• http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/03/alan-kay-again-on-software-engineering.html --Alan Kay (again) on Software Engineering
• Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more.

• Wiki:IsCeePlusPlusObjectOriented
  
  
• http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/07/22/0018240.shtml?tid=173&tid=156 --HP Fires Father of OOP

I'm not against types, but I don't know of any type systems that aren't a complete pain, so I still like dynamic typing.[1]

I invented the term object oriented, and I can tell you that C++ wasn't what I had in mind.

• http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
• More quotes from AlanKay: [2]
  
  
• Lisa Rein's Tour Of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation
  
  
• Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (clip)