Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
BILL JOYI started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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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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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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