Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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