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

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
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
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
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
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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Research Use Way
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program

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