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Programming Quotes by Bill Joy
- 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…
- 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…
- The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states…
- 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…
- I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads…
- You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
More Programming Quotes
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke
- Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying… — Ken Keyes Jr.
- We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. — Joel Spolsky