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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Bill Joy

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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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