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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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 can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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

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