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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Bill Joy

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
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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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