We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
BILL JOYThe point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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