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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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 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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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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