The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
BILL JOYI think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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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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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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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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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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