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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.

Alan Kay

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
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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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
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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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.

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