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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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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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