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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
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
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
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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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

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