Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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