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Post #75,801

by tuberculosis

1/20/03 8:56:47 PM

8/21/07 6:33:52 AM

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Now if we could just get the headhunters to behave accordingly we might all get a chance at food on the table.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:33:52 AM EDT

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Trends - (kmself) - (21) - Jan. 18, 2003, 12:33:40 AM EST

AIX is hot in FL as well as .nyet, mqseries is also hot - (boxley) - Jan. 18, 2003, 12:37:29 AM EST

Analysis - (broomberg) - (19) - Jan. 18, 2003, 09:03:08 AM EST

BO is like SAP - (deSitter) - (3) - Jan. 18, 2003, 10:44:33 AM EST

Answer: ___Arthur C. Clarke + Stephen Baxter's [Review] (new thread) - (Ashton) - Jan. 18, 2003, 05:51:17 PM EST

Fad? Expire? - (broomberg) - (1) - Jan. 19, 2003, 01:22:17 AM EST

you dont need a guru but a gruntyou - (boxley) - Jan. 19, 2003, 01:31:32 AM EST

How hard can it be? - (tuberculosis) - (14) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:26:49 AM EDT

Well now, that was a concise statement there Todd... - (folkert) - (1) - Jan. 19, 2003, 10:29:24 AM EST

Yep, it was well said. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 19, 2003, 01:25:39 PM EST

Very - (broomberg) - (11) - Jan. 19, 2003, 11:33:28 AM EST

Disagree somewhat an analyst analyses - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 19, 2003, 11:48:14 AM EST

No way - (broomberg) - Jan. 19, 2003, 01:18:03 PM EST

And that is a key point - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 19, 2003, 02:43:33 PM EST

Not - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:27:45 AM EDT

Well, it still depends on the person's abilities - (tonytib) - Jan. 19, 2003, 06:01:06 PM EST

Just a system? - (broomberg) - (5) - Jan. 19, 2003, 09:20:07 PM EST

Yep - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:29:24 AM EDT

Yep - (deSitter) - Jan. 20, 2003, 05:31:36 AM EST

OK, time to take my beating - (broomberg) - (2) - Jan. 20, 2003, 07:26:24 PM EST

Cool - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:33:52 AM EDT

Re: OK, time to take my beating - (gdaustin) - Jan. 23, 2003, 04:39:31 PM EST

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