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.
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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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