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"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."

"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence."

"Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely."

"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"

"Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use."
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"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."

"C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new."

"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."

"A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova."

"C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group."

"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."
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