In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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