I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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