Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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I 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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Java 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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