Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
BILL JOYThe 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.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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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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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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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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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