I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThe 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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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