Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOYWhat’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within 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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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it’s true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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 a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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