Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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