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.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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