They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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