Quote by Bill Joy Download Open image “I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.” — Bill Joy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn’t the versatility of Gnu-Emacs,… — Clifford Stoll 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
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise,… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system.… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system. — George Hamilton 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
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
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
