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.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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