In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYI 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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[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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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