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.
ALAN KAYIf we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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