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

Bill Joy

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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

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