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"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."
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"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."
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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
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"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
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"The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia."
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"S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out."
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"Magic fucking phone."
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"All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works."
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"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."
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"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
Technology
"In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe."
Thinking
"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires."
Innovation
"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
Beginning
"In the beginning, there were Real Programmers."
Beginning
"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."
Technology
"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."
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"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
Computer
"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them."
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