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I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.

Bill Joy

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
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
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
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
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
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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