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You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Bill Joy

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
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
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today

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