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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Bill Joy

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology 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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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 have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

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