I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
BILL JOYThe standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about 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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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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