76 Quotes by Bill Joy

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.