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?
BILL JOYWhat’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within 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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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’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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