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.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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