Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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