Software and the shaping of the invisible

Computers are to computing as instruments are to music. Software is the score whose interpretation amplifies our reach and lifts our spirits. Leonardo da Vinci called music “the shaping of the invisible”, and his phrase is even more apt as a description of software.

Alan Kay (speaking in 1984)

 

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