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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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