I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAY
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Scratch 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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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