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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Bill Joy

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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Asking Development Technological
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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