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Bill Joy

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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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

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