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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Bill Joy

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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish

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