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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Bill Joy

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

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