Quotes from Bill Joy

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

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.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

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

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

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

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

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

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.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

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.

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

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

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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

I'm up late again - It's almost 6 am. I'm trying to imagine some better answers, to break the spell and free them from the stone.

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

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.