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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

Bill Joy

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System 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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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
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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking

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