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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 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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
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
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
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
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

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