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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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells

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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