A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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