As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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