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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.

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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
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
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

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