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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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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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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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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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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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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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