Top 28 Quotes by Bill Joy

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

But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

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

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

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.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.