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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology

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