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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Bill Joy

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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

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