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

Bill Joy

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
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
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
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble

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