I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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