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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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