The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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