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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Bill Joy

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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
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
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

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