Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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