The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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