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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.

Bill Joy

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 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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
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
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 wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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