black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Bill Joy

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
BILL JOY

Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
BILL JOY

Keyboard Keys Wish
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.
BILL JOY

Common Sense Desire Knowledge
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
BILL JOY

Dots Lasers Media
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
BILL JOY

Domain Doom Fate
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.
BILL JOY

Mirrors Thinking Views
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
BILL JOY

Ethical Issues Worry
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
BILL JOY

Asking Development Technological
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
BILL JOY

Responsibility Technology Today
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
BILL JOY

Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOY

Care Running Today
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
BILL JOY

Computing Definitions Standards
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
BILL JOY

Life Management Positive Technology
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
BILL JOY

Levels Thinking Wonderful
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
BILL JOY

Editors People Tired
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
BILL JOY

Responsibility Taking Responsibility

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Joy Quotes