This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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