An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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