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.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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