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The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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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Common Sense Desire Knowledge
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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 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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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