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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

Bill Joy

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
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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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
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
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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Program Prove Sugar
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking

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