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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

Bill Joy

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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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