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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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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