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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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 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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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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