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

Bill Joy

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
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
We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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Dots Lasers Media
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
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
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
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Care Running Today
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards

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