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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Computer Scientist
Class
Process
Processing
Strings
Daily
Daily Lives
Expressions
Namely
String
Text
Tried
Tuned
Work Hard
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One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, 'Nobody bailed us out; we did it.' And it's a very important social thing for them to do that.
Edwin Catmull
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Computer Scientist
Pixar
Disney
Solving
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Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.
Jim Horning
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Computer Scientist
Real
Tribes
World
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You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin
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Computer Scientist
Happiness
Inspirational
Car
Expired
Lease
Little Bit
Mind
New Car
Happiness Money Always
Buy
Figured
Hear
Phrase
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There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be "such a system is conscious.
Stuart J. Russell
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Computer Scientist
Brain
Neurons
Would Be
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To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.
Stuart J. Russell
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Computer Scientist
Progress
Thinking
Trying
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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Andy Hertzfeld
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Computer Scientist
Leadership
Contribution
Creative Spirit
Excellence
Passion
Perfection
Pure
Thinking
Good Great Enough
Leadership Good Great
Besides
Main
Steve
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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
Anita Borg
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Computer Scientist
Leadership
Communicators
Demand
Leader
People
Real
Valuable
Bring
Executive
Incredibly
Positions
Visionary
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Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.
Brian Kernighan
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Computer Scientist
Glad
Real Life
Remains
Variety
Anytime
Life Real Will
Graph
Standard
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Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn't matter: they all work.
James Gosling
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Computer Scientist
Design
Ada
Irrelevant
Java
Matter
Work Use People
Work Design People
Almost
Seen
Scheme
Virtual
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Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.
Stuart J. Russell
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Computer Scientist
Legs
Progress
Robots
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I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Computer Scientist
Believe
Fun
Stress
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I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer Scientist
Dirty
Mean
Years
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The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.
Stephen Wolfram
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Computer Scientist
Notion
Programming
Setting
Structure
Symbolic
Content
Represent
Expressions
Functions
Operate
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We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.
Steve Crocker
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Computer Scientist
Clue
Discussing
Governance
Important
Meetings
Numbers
People
Large Number
No Clue
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We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
Tim Berners-Lee
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Computer Scientist
Important Values
Needs
Thinking
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For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.
Donald Knuth
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Computer Scientist
Art
Design
Book
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You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.
Max Levchin
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Computer Scientist
Appropriate
Growth
Iphone
Mobile
Phones
Stunned
Android
App
Device
Phone
Immediate
Pull
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The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
Jon Postel
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Computer Scientist
Bandwidth
Path
Reserved
Allowed
Basis
Percentage
Served
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You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
Stephen Wolfram
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Computer Scientist
Equations
Introduction
Mathematical
Natural World
Good World Your
Describe
Dominated
Exact
Good Idea
Sciences
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer Scientist
Telescopes
Tools
Use
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... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer Scientist
Design
Effort
Giving
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A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama
Guy Steele
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Computer Scientist
Men
Camels
Hero
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I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things that we do. There are a variety of issues that make it a very complex discussion as to whether it actually works as a business.
James Gosling
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Computer Scientist
Abstract
Discussion
Right Thing
Variety
Complex
The Right Thing
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John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer Scientist
Learning
Attention
Simple
Way
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Computer Scientist
Technology
Innovation
People
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
Alan Kay
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Computer Scientist
Nerd
Our Society
Slides
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In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.
Edwin Catmull
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Computer Scientist
Attitude
Risk
Past Look People
Cling
Forward
Onto
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
Geoffrey Hinton
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Computer Scientist
Arbitrary
Artificial
No Reason
Current
Make Up
Nets
Something Else
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I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Niklaus Wirth
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Computer Scientist
Quality
Time
Effort
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I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Computer Scientist
Book
Cancer
Looks
Premium
Figured
Insurance
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What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.
Jef Raskin
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Computer Scientist
Jobs
Crazy
Ideas
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Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.
Tony Hoare
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Computer Scientist
Design
Language
Tools
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A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
David Gries
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Computer Scientist
Block
Thinking
Tired
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
Donald Knuth
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Computer Scientist
Family
Trust
Flash
Internet
Jewels
Linux
Memories
Surfing
Ubuntu
Currently
Between
Carry
Connection
Drives
Graphics
Laptop
Machine
Memory
Network
Occasionally
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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
Jon Postel
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Computer Scientist
Computers
Bits
Decision
Imagine
Size
Time Good Decision
Address
Number
Ip
Larger
One Of The Things
Turned
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Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
Andy Hertzfeld
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Computer Scientist
Hours
Long Hours
Our Lives
Single
Team
Time Family Long
Time Family Your
Anymore
Devote
Working
Essentially
Family Time Long
Helps
Yours
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To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!
Donald Knuth
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Computer Scientist
Blame
Demise
Faster
Hardware
Machines
Software
Moore
More Or Less
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You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.
Stuart J. Russell
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Computer Scientist
Goal
Real
Robots
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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
Wietse Venema
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Computer Scientist
Equipment
Experiments
Kind
Multiple
Physics
Previous Life
Rely
Safety
Software
Inside
Deal
Nets
Previous
Safety Nets
Systems
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Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?
Bill Joy
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Computer Scientist
Technology
Asking
Technological Development
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A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.
Edwin Catmull
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Computer Scientist
Movie
Design
Backgrounds
Form
Ideas
Lighting
Pacing
Camera
Colors
Contains
Performance
Line
Locations
Sentence
Sets
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Niklaus Wirth
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Computer Scientist
Approach
Careful
Convinced
Development
Effort
Investing
Safe
Software
Languages
Time Effort I Am
Recognized
Structured
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Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.
Philip Greenspun
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Computer Scientist
Stupid
Taken
Thinking
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If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.
Stuart J. Russell
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Computer Scientist
Quality
Decision
Machines
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I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again?
Edwin Catmull
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Computer Scientist
Conservatism
Successful
Afraid
Companies
Pulled
Tends
Throw
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The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.
Gene Spafford
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Computer Scientist
Bunkers
Nerves
Safe
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The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.
Jay Wright Forrester
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Computer Scientist
Country
Real
World Government
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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
Max Levchin
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Computer Scientist
Believe
Fickle
Financial Services
Impact
Media
Vocal
Believe People Way
Rewarding
Services
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel Borenstein
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Computer Scientist
Baghdad
Ethics
Writing
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