The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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