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ALAN KAYI 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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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