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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

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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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

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