Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
BILL JOYInterleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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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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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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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