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

Bill Joy

I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
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
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
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
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Lot Sophisticated Systems
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
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
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want

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