I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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I 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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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