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

Bill Joy

But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards

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