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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Alan Kay

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
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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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
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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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
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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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other

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