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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

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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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
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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program

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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