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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.

Alan Kay

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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 the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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 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”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. 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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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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