Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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