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

Bill Joy

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 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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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 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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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

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