Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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?
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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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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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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