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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 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.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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