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You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

Bill Joy

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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Program Prove Sugar
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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 one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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

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