“Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!”

Alan Kay, 1971, Inventor of Smalltalk (source)

I didn’t know that there was a longer form of this quote. I guess the shorter form of this quote is catchier, but it’s interesting to note that inventing the future requires really smart people and reasonable funding.

The quote “Fake it till you make it” seems to have a similar meaning. I guess my quote of “Shut up and ship it” has a similar ring to it.

But really, what are quotes but words strung together in a sentence without any action?

Food for thought, really. I leave you with this for tonight.