I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
BILL JOYI think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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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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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Although humankind inherently “desires to know”, if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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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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