I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
BILL JOYThe standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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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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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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