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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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