Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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