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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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