Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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