An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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