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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

Bill Joy

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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