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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

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
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive 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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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

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