Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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