We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
BILL JOYYou can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
BILL JOYTake responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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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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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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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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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 JOYYou 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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOYJust about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
BILL JOYMost of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
BILL JOYA bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
BILL JOYToday scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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