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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Bill Joy

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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