I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
BILL JOYWe have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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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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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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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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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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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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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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