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by tuberculosis
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1/20/03 8:56:47 PM
8/21/07 6:33:52 AM
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New Cool
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
Collapse Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:33:52 AM EDT
Cool
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
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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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