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

Bill Joy

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry

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

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