Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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More Bill Joy Quotes
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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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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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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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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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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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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And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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