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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

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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting 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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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

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