Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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