Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
BILL JOYThe point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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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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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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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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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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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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