They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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