Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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