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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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