People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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