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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.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
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

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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