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One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.
Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.
When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!
Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.
Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable
An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.