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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

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking

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