Bill Joy

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

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.

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

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

The only thing I command is respect.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.