Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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