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Bill Joy

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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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
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
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

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