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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Bill Joy

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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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 can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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Program Prove Sugar

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