If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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