School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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