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

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
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
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems

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

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