Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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