Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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