The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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