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Bill Joy

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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