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Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay (1971)

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

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

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