Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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 a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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