I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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