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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

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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 a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn’t we proceed with great caution?
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Asking Development Technological
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart

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