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

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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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

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