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.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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