Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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