Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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