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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Bill Joy

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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 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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want

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