If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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