That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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