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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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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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
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

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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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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