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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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