The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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