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.
BILL JOYI think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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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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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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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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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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