Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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