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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.

Bill Joy

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking

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