If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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