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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Bill Joy

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
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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

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