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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The 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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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