I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYI 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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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