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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

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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Asking Development Technological
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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Research Use Way
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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