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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.

Bill Joy

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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 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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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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