The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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