As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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