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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Bill Joy

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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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’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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Common Sense Desire Knowledge

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