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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.
I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries
Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.
In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.