A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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[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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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