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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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