The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYTelevision 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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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