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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

Bill Joy

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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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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Couple People Writing
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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