Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
BILL JOYI just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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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 think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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