Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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