The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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 and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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