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

Bill Joy

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
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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