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

Bill Joy

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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 have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
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
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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Editors People Tired
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

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