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Bill Joy

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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Program Prove Sugar
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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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Couple People Writing
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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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Intelligent Robots Small Steps

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