Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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