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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

Bill Joy

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System 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
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 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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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

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