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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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility Taking Responsibility
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media

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