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 KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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