I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
BILL JOYWell, limbo is not a good place to be.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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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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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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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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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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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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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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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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