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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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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