Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
BILL JOYSystems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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 problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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