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When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland

Worth noting that the person that asked him this was Alan Kay.



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