Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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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.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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