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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 point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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 editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
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
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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