Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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 a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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 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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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