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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.

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
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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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
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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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
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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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User

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