Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
BILL JOYYou 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.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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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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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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