As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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