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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.

Bill Joy

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems

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