Oct 10, 2026
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay | Quote Explained
A deep analysis of the computer scientist's most quoted line — the 1971 Xerox PARC meeting where Alan Kay says he said it, the fuller version with the Newton's-laws corollary, the 1982 InfoWorld article that gives the earliest known print sighting, the 1963 Dennis Gabor sentence it descends from, and the Drucker and Lincoln attributions that the record does not support.