The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
BILL JOYThere are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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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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There are always more smart people outside your company than within 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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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