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.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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