Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOYOperating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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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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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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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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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 started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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