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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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