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Alan Kay Quotes: Technology is anything invented after you were born.
         

Technology is anything invented after you were born.


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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.



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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.



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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.



I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.



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.

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.



Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.





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