Quote by Clifford Stoll

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

— Bill Joy

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

— Bill Joy

“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

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

— Bill Joy

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

— Bill Joy

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

— Richard Stallman

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

Unix is back in vogue.

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

“Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s easy to…

— Clifford Stoll

“Notepad++ for Windows, Sublime Text, Vim and Emacs are also available cross-platform. These text editors come with syntax highlighting and line numbers, which makes…

— Wiki Books

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

— Bill Joy

We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

— Darl McBride