In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYBut 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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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.
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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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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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