76 Quotes by Bill Joy

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

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

But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.

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

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

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

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

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.