An engineer is someone who can make for a dollar what any fool could make for two. – Alan Kay
And engineer is someone who designed the computer you’re using to slur engineers.
Perhaps Alan Kay should get out of the classroom and spend some time with actual engineers ...
I actually never said this. Not did I say the original quote “An engineer is someone who can make for a dime what any fool can make for a dollar”, which goes back in the early 20th century or earlier.
My friend Chuck Thacker — the main designer of the computers at Xerox Parc — has been heard to utter a version of this quote.