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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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

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