I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However,… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
