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

Bill Joy

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
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
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way

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

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