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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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