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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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