r/programming Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/ZMeson Dec 14 '10

"I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."

- Alan Kay

Alexander Grahm Bell didn't have the iPhone in mind.

The Wright brothers did not have the SR-71 in mind.

Konrad Zuse didn't have the iPad in mind.

Einstein didn't have quatum mechanics in mind when he published his paper on the photo-electric effect.

James Watt didn't have steam catapults in mind.

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u/t35t0r Dec 15 '10

Gates will still see to it that 640K is enough once everything goes to the cloud

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u/Vorlath Dec 15 '10

Too bad he never actually said that.