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What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.
Hal Abelson
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
Hal Abelson
Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.
Hal Abelson
In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral.
Hal Abelson
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Hal Abelson
Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open Courseware program.
Hal Abelson
It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?
Hal Abelson
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
See, in general, as systems designers, you're forced with necessity to make decisions about how you're going to do things, and in general, the way you'd like to retain flexibility is to never make up your mind about anything until you're forced to do it. The problem is, there's a very, very narrow line between deferring decisions and outright procrastination. So you'd like to make progress, but also at the same time, never be bound by the consequences of your decisions.
Hal Abelson