A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
BILL JOYThe problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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