I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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 is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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