When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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