I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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So 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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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