Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYI’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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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