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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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

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