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

Bill Joy

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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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 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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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

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