"You can't prove anything about a program written……" — Bill Joy
"You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar."
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- You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
- I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
- If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another…
- The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
- You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you.…
- Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
- Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
- Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
- But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
- I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
- I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
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