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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

Bill Joy

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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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