In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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