The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYBad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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