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

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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor 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

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