The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Java 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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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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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