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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

Bill Joy

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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