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"Let there be more biographies of failures, people who were ignored by the world, whose ideas came before their time, whose great work was left in ruins." Alan
by datavirtue 6y ago
"Let there be more biographies of failures, people who were ignored by the world, whose ideas came before their time, whose great work was left in ruins."
Alan Kay.
Simply because everyone misunderstood OOP and completely missed the point. The idea was too far ahead of it's time to have not been misunderstood.
- yesenadam 6y ago"Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." — Emerson, Self-Reliance