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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.

Bill Joy

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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Mirrors Thinking Views
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards

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