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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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Another Context Creativity Most Mst Surprise Thing Transition
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
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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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency

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