The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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