[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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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