When I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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