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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Bill Joy

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 multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels Thinking Wonderful
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 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
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
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
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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Company Outside People Smart
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable Next Steps Selling
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors Interesting Thinking
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System

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