Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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’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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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But 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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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