Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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