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?
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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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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