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You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Bill Joy

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
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 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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility

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