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

Bill Joy

What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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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Research Use Way
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People

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