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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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