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“That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

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

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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

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

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I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

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I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results…

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I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

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I didn't say wonderful, I say eminent domain is something you need Chris. Eminent domain - if I build a highway - go ahead.…

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Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it…

Aleksandar Hemon

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With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they…

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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

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