The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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If 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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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