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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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Alan KayActually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I di — Alan Kay
"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
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Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the ear
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
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"The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to."
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