I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYBad 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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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