Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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