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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Alan Kay

There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
[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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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
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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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Gild Knowledge Lead Outlook Silver Weight
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
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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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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