It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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The 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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