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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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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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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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"But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes."
Mistake
"I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor."
People
"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
Technology
"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
Will
"I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive."
Performance
"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."
Community
"The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen."
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"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."
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