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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Bill Joy

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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
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 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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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

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