If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYAnd 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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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 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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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