Alan Kay on the Power of Simplicity

Kenneth Friedman · Talk · YouTube title: Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

Why it's here

HN repeatedly cites it as a thought-provoking talk on reducing software complexity and on the state of computing research.

What it covers

Alan Kay's 2015 talk on the power of simplicity, arguing that systems become simpler by building on more sophisticated fundamental building blocks and that big research horizons drove invention at Xerox PARC. It ranges across computing, tools and scaling software.