I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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