I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYBad 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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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