Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
BILL JOYAnd 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.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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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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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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