I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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