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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

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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 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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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 a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren’t that good.
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Couple People Writing
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking

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