By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYThis 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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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’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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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