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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
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

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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