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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.

Bill Joy

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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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 solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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

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