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.

— Alan Kay, A Conversation with Alan Kay (2005)

Source: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

From the 2004–05 ACM Queue interview "A Conversation with Alan Kay".

Topics: software design, software engineering