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.

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

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

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.