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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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