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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

Bill Joy

Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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