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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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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