Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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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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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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