There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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