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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 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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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

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