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

Bill Joy

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
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
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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

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