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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

Bill Joy

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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

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