Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYThe protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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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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[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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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