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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

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology 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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System 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
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful

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