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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

Bill Joy

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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

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