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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Bill Joy

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
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
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
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

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