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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

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology

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