The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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