The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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