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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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