I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
BILL JOYThere are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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.
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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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