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Bill Joy Quotes

American - Businessman | November 8, 1954 -

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

You Want Point System Responsive

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

Good Place Good Place Well Limbo

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

People Listening Stupid Questions

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

Think Wonderful Would Undo I Think

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

Effort Think Tools Become Fair Hard

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.

Out Stuff Ripped Some Eventually

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

Wish I Wish Used Keyboard Keys

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

Think Interesting Things I Think

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

Windows Up Display Almost Code Gave

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

Problem You Got Mouse Commands

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

Good Think Wonderful Share Market

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.

Memory Performance Think Back Copy

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