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

Bill Joy

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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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