Alan Kay on Companies and Research Labs

„Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.“

Alan KayAlan Kay questions whether large companies truly listen to their research labs in this concise quote about innovation and leadership.
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Alan Kay is an American computer scientist and a pioneer of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces.

Alan Kay critiques the distance between large companies and their research labs, prompting reflection on innovation and decision-making.


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Alan Kay quote about companies and research labs

Alan Kay (born in 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist. He is regarded as a pioneer of object-oriented programming, the Smalltalk programming language, and graphical user interface design. With the Dynabook concept, he also developed an early precursor to modern laptops, tablet computers, and e-books.

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