This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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