If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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