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

Bill Joy

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology

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