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In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.
Technology makes the world a new place.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you.
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!
First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.