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Bill Joy

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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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
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

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