Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
BILL JOYMost of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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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 problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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 started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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