The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAY
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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