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

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
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want

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

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