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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. 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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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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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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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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. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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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. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. 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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