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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.

Bill Joy

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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 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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
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
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish

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