Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOYI got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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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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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
BILL JOYA bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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.
BILL JOYToday scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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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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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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