The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
ADAM OSBORNE
ADAM OSBORNE
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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Alan LomaxAlan Lomax I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Alan KayAlan Kay In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Alan KayAlan Kay I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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