There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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