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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Bill Joy

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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble

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