Author details
All Bill Joy Quotes
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
Bill Joy
59% of people like this quote
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
Bill Joy
58% of people like this quote
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Bill Joy
56% of people like this quote
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
Bill Joy
55% of people like this quote
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
Bill Joy
52% of people like this quote
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bill Joy
51% of people like this quote
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
Bill Joy
49% of people like this quote
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.
Bill Joy
47% of people like this quote
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
Bill Joy
46% of people like this quote
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
Bill Joy
46% of people like this quote
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Bill Joy
46% of people like this quote
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
Bill Joy
46% of people like this quote
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
Bill Joy
45% of people like this quote
Related authors