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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994) by mvzink on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @03:56AM (#2045022)
That Alan Kay signature quote is telling. Well done, Amazon.
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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994) by qohen on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @04:42AM (#2045081)
Eh, not so well done--Bezos got the quote wrong.

The correct/canonical version of Alan Kay's quote is: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it".

This version has 50+ million hits vs. 5100-ish for the version Bezos has (plus 40 more if you search for it with "it is" instead of "it's") ).

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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994) by JonnieCache on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:35AM (#2045401) 

    “Misquotation is ... the pride and privilege of the learned.
    A widely-read man never quotes accurately for the rather obvious reason
    that he has read too widely.”
    
    Hesketh Pearson (1887 – 1964)
There is a more amusing one than this but I cannot find it for the life of me. Obviously this applies more to the spoken than the written word but the point stands.
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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994) by sewerhorse on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @05:05AM (#2045103)
Well, this was all before Google and even Altavista. Back then all the worlds quotes wasn't at your fingertips.
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Re:Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (1994) by revorad on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @08:26AM (#2045384)
He got the gist though, sort of, don't you agree?
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