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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Bill Joy

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying 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 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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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
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
A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People

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