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.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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