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.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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