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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Bill Joy

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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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Couple People Writing
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
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

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