And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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