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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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