That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
BILL JOYAlthough 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.
More Bill Joy Quotes
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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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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We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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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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The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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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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Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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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I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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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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