Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYSome 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 KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYMost software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYBecause the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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