This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYBut 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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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 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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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