Bill Joy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.”

“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.”

“I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.”

“Interleaf is based on the formatting process.”

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

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

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

“I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.”

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