Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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The 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.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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