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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.

Bill Joy

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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

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