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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Bill Joy

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues Worry
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
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 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
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
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
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
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
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
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 was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
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Knows Surprise System
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
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
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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