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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
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
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

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