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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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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 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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking

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