Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
BILL JOYI just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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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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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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