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.
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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