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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

Bill Joy

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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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