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You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Bill Joy

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
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

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