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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.

Bill Joy

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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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