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

Bill Joy

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
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 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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear 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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility

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