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ALAN KAYI 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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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