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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.

Bill Joy

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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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