I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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More Bill Joy Quotes
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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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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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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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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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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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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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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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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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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