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.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Bad 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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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