If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
ALAN KAYThe 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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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