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

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor 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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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

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