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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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