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

Bill Joy

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear 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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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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