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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

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 always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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 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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
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
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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