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Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
Kenneth Friedman
Alan Kay's 2015 talk on the power of simplicity, arguing that systems become simpler by building on more sophisticated fundamental building blocks and that big research horizons drove invention at Xerox PARC. It ranges across computing, tools and scaling software.
HN repeatedly cites it as a thought-provoking talk on reducing software complexity and on the state of computing research.
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