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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Bill Joy

Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear 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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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