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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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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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