Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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