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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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