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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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

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