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ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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