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 JOYOperating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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’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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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