Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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