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

Bill Joy

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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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