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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.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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Asking Development Technological

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