Thanks Chris for your correction, it great to have well informed people in this list!
Cheers, Jaime -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Alan Kay On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Christian Morency wrote: > > >> Jaime Vargas wrote: >> -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Steve Jobs > > Sorry if this off-topic and seems like neat-picking, but I have way too > much respect for inovators in computer history to let this through ;) > (Those do not include (jobs/gates/linus)). Amongs said innovators: Alan > Kay and Carl Sassenrath. > > So in order to restore historic fact, the quote is not by Steve Jobs, > it's from Alan Kay, member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center > (PARC) > research team responsible for : > > Network computing as we know it today. > GUI and Mouse interactivity as we know it today. > Smalltalk and OOP as we know it today. > > The story of how Jobs and/or Gates were inspired by PARC can be read at > http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html > > Best > Chris > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
