Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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