I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
BILL JOYI was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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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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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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