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

Bill Joy

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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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 just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear 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
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
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Ago Editor Long Writing
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today

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