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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
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
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 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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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’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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart

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