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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Bill Joy

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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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
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 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
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
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology

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