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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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