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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Bill Joy

Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive 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

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