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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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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 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 can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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 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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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 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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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