I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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.
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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.
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
