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Bill Joy

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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
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
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

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