Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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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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