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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
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

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