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Bill Joy

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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

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