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+title: keep fun in computing
+date: 2013-10-09
+layout: post
+category: log
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+
+Taken from [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp][Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs]]:
+
+#+BEGIN_QUOTE
+"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.
+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.”
+#+END_QUOTE
+
+/Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)/
+
+Dear friends, let's keep having fun.