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

Bill Joy

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
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

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