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 JOYI was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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