Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Alan Kay's Popular Quotes

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

- Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex eve…

- Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

- Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

- Alan Kay

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

- Alan Kay

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.

- Alan Kay

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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

- Alan Kay