Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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