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.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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