The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
BILL JOYI think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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 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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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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