I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Art 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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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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