Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 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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