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

Bill Joy

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish

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