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.
BILL JOYBut no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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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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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within 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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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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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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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