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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

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
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
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

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