I’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.
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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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 don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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