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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.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Joss Language Predate
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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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
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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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
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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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
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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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
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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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually

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