Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYAnd 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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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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