I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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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?
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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