The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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