The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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