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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.

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
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors Thinking Views
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful

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