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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold

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