I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
BILL JOYI got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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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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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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