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Bill Joy

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
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Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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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Research Use Way
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish

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