Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYI’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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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