Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
BILL JOYI wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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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 got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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