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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

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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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 think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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 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
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
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
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
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

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