Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
BILL JOYThere are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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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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