Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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