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

Bill Joy

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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

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