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.
BILL JOYI think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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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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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn’t we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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