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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
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Computing Definitions Standards
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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 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 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
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
A bomb is blown up only once-but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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Bombs Control Quickly
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done Littles Way
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Life Management Positive Technology
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
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Domain Doom Fate

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