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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.

Bill Joy

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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive 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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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

I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.

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