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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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