Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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.
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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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