Quote: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

— Alan Kay

Context

At a 1971 meeting at Xerox PARC, while discussing the philosophy behind personal computing.

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“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”

— Niels Bohr

“The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

— Steve Jobs

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Comments3

Sarah Chen• 2 days ago

This is exactly what I needed. The breakdown of architectural tradeoffs was particularly illuminating — especially the point about eventual consistency vs. strong consistency being a product decision, not just a technical one.

Marcus Webb• 1 day ago

Agreed. Would love a follow-up that goes deeper on the consensus algorithms.

Priya Patel• 3 days ago

Curious how this approach holds up at 10x the scale. Have you tested with sharded clusters?