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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
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want

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