Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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