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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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