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

Bill Joy

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
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 think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System 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
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
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want

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