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Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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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