I just posted this quote as a comment on the ApacheToday article.
ApacheToday comments are moderated so it'll probably be a while before it
shows up.

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter William Lount [mailto:peter at smalltalk.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 5:35 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu; kreichard at internet.com
> Subject: Re: predicting the future
> 
> 
> The Full Alan Kay Quote
> 
> "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do... The best way to
> predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with 
> reasonable
> funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of
> Newton's Laws!" 
> - Alan Kay in 1971,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I spoke with Alan Kay about this a while back and
> http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html contains the full Alan 
> Kay quote and
> a few of Alan's comments on it. Douglas Adams
> must have been quoting Alan without mentioning Alan's name. 
> The author of
> the article must not have known that Douglas was quoting Alan.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Peter
> peter at smalltalk.org
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> From: montgomery f. tidwell <mtidwell at practicalmatters.com>
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: predicting the future
> Date: October 25, 2000 1:44 PM
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> 
> > Rallying the faithful at ApacheCon Europe last night, 
> Douglas Adams -- 
> > legendary author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- told an 
> > audience of 300 that the best way to predict the future is to invent
> it...
> 
> Hey! did i miss something?? i thought that that quote was made by
> Alan Kay?? 
> 
> 
> http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-25-001-01-OP-CY-LF
> 
> 
> 
>                                    \\//_
>