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.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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