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“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” quote by Bill Joy — Download Open image

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

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

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