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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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