I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The 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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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