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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Bill Joy

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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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

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