Thursday, January 10, 2008

Listen To What The Man Said

Just couple of nice quotes for today: Alan Kay on Innovation and the not so new but still relevant Edsger W. Dijkstra transcriptions - look at this Q&A for a quick feel.

"Machine capacities now give us room galore for making a mess of it. Opportunities unlimited for fouling things up! Developing the austere intellectual discipline of keeping things sufficiently simple is in this environment a formidable challenge, both technically and educationally."

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