The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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