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

Bill Joy

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear 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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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 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
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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