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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Bill Joy

What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
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Computer Should Technology
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition Nice Program
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboard Keys Wish
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Responsibility Technology Today
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
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Like Loses Window
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
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
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive System Want
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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Teamwork Trying Want
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community Editor Thinking
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
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
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks Underwear Want
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
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Management Matter People
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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Good Limbo Place Wells
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble

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