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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Bill Joy

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
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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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

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