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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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