And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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