I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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