A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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