Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYI 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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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