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Bill Joy

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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
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
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
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful

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