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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.

Bill Joy

There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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 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

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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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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