When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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