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

Bill Joy

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
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
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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful

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