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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
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
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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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

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