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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.

Bill Joy

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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today

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