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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Bill Joy

Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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