I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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More Bill Joy Quotes
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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