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 JOYBut no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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