The Tree Of Research Must Be Fed

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.

Bad User On Device Is A Medium That Can Dynamically Simulate The Details Of Any Other Medium, Including Media That Cannot Exist Physically. It Is Not A Tool, Although It Can Act Like Many Tools. It Is The First Metamedium, And As Such It Has Degrees Of Freedom For Representation And Expression Never Before Encountered And As Yet Barely Investigated.

I Fear - As Far As I Can Tell - That Most Undergraduate Degrees In Computer Science These Days Are Basically Java Vocational Training.

Sun Microsystems Had The Right People To Make Java Into A First-class Language, And I Believe It Was The Sun Marketing People Who Rushed The Thing Out Before It Should Have Gotten Out.

The Greatest Single Programming Language Ever Designed