I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a… — 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, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the… — 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
