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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

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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles 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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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

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