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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.

Bill Joy

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
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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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