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.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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