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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 Customers 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.

Is It Possible That Software Is Not Like Anything Else, That It Is Meant To Be Discarded: That The Whole Point Is To Always See It As A Soap Bubble?

The Best Book On Programming For The Layman Is Alice In Wonderland, But That's Because It's The Best Book On Anything For The Layman.

Learning French Is Trivial: The Word For Horse Is Cheval, And Everything Else Follows In The Same Way.

Adapting Old Programs To Fit New Machines Usually Means Adapting New Machines To Behave Like Old Ones.