Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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