Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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