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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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