I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. — 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
I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough… — 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
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
