In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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