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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Bill Joy

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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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