And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do 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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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