In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYAnd 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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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