When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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