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.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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