Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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