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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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