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Bill Joy

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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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 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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble

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