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UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Andy Hertzfeld
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If youre a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but youll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill Gates
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The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
Julian Assange
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You grow more when you get more people's perspective.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.
Erik Naggum
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
Bill Gates
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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm not all that religion used to fill.
Bill Gates
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Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war.
Julian Assange
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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Richard Stallman
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A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
Julian Assange
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I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.
Bill Gates
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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
Bill Gates
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Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
Kent Beck
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I always carry my camera with me.
David Karp
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I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out what does it all mean? I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, were better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. Thats the only way to move forward.
Elon Musk
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Bill Gates
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If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.
Linus Torvalds
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I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.
Bill Gates
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Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?
Ward Cunningham
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Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.
Ward Cunningham
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And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.
Ward Cunningham
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