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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

Bill Joy

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
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
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
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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 next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling

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