The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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