As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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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