That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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