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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.

Bill Joy

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 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
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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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

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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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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