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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 21:40:41 EDT clacke
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
   
   Kent Beck: "Refactor mercilessly"
   
   Alan Kay: "[Computers in your computers]"
   
   Chuck Moore: "[Make your own computer]"
   
   Joe Armstrong: "Reverse entropy" https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/781324
   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 22:02:46 EDT clacke

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      The literal Chuck quote:
      
      > First the software problems were solved. It was easy to write applications, trivial to write applications. [ . . . ] So I thought I would see what I could do to address the hardware problem.
      
      http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
      
      Love the low-key audacity of mentioning in passing that you solved "the software problems" decades ago.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 22:49:35 EDT clacke

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         But ooh, there's this Alan Kay quote (via Steve Jobs):
         
         "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
         
         https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now