People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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