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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.

Bill Joy

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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
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 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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species – to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
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Intelligent Robots Small Steps
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
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

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