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.
BILL JOYThe next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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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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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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