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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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