And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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