Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
6 人推荐 · 跨 7 个月 · 2015–2025
中文导读
Alan Kay 在 2015 年关于“简单之美”的主题演讲。他提出：真正的简单源于更成熟高级的基础积木，而当年 Xerox PARC 的众多发明正是源于宏大的研究视野。内容纵贯计算本质、工具演进以及软件规模化。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 社区频繁引用的经典思考，直面如何降低软件系统复杂性，并深刻反思了计算机科研的现状。
「毫不夸张地说，这是我近几年看过的最发人深省的技术演讲之一。」HN 网友原话：Easily over of the most thought provoking presentations I have seen recently.
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
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.
HN repeatedly cites it as a thought-provoking talk on reducing software complexity and on the state of computing research.
HN 上的提及
This a known Alan Kay talk, he did it already a few times.
Easily over of the most thought provoking presentations I have seen recently.
Alan Kay has a more generalized idea about building up abstractions that I like better.
See it anyway. It's a good talk.
well, in this talk it sounds like you do advocate tool building