A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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