Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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