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

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
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People 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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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 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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program

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