Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
BILL JOYJust about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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