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

Bill Joy

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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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 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
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells

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