And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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 result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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