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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.

Bill Joy

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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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 oriented programming is the way to go.
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Research Use Way
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window

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