I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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