Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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