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BILL JOYTake responsibility for the things you build and invent.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within 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 got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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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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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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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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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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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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