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

Bill Joy

Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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 best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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Research Use Way
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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