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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

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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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

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