The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
BILL JOYThere 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.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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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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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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 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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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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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