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You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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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