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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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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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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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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

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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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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. 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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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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

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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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

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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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