And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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