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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

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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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Couple People Writing
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems

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