Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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