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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want

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