"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing."
— Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
basic level” “primitive word-at-a-time style” “close coupling of semantics to state transitions” “division […] into […] expressions & […] statements” “inability to use powerful combining forms” “lack of useful mathematical properties for reasoning”
that may or may not be good for anything, then the programmer's job is to make Intel look good, by making code that will actually somehow run on it.” — Alan Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
language, the applications and the user interface in about 10,000 lines of code. Now it's true that we were able to build our own computers, that makes a huge difference.” — Alan Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY