Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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 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.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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