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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Bill Joy

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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 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
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards

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