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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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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

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