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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Alan Kay

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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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