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

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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
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

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