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C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history.
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.
Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.
If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.
I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.
A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.