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

Bill Joy

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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 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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems

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