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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?

Bill Joy

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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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 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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
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

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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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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