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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’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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