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

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I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

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

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.”

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em…

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of…

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.