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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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