Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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