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

Bill Joy

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems

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