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

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
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
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
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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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