Alan Kay vs. Kenneth Boulding
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Alan Kay
1940 – present
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the early versions of the language and coining the term "object-oriented." He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.
"The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can proba…"
Kenneth Boulding
1910 – 1993
Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. Boulding was the author of two citation classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). He was co-founder of general systems theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science.
"Economists can take a good deal of credit for the stabilization policies which have been followed in most Western countries since 1945 with considerable success…"
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