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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.
TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.
What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!
The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.
To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.
The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'
The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.
In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.
One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.
It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
The question is, can we make neural networks that are 1,000 times bigger? And how can we do that with existing computation?
The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.
The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.
I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.
The thing that the Microsoft folks did a really good job of is the easy-to-use tools for making application-building simple.
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.
Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?