Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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