Things I want to remember ∩ Things I don’t mind the internet knowing
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA 05 July 2024
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
- “Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Plato
“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.” – N. W. Dougherty
“All you needed was a light, a cup of tea, and your stereo.” – Steve Jobs
“Don’t you see? An equation has no meaning to me… unless it expresses a thought of God.” – Srinivas Ramanujan Aiyangar
“There is no secret ingredient. It’s just you.” – Mr. Ping
“Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” – Christopher, The Imitation Game
“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” – Alan Turing