Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAY
So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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