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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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