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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Bill Joy

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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

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