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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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Asking Development Technological
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window

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