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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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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