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28 quotes by Bill Joy

William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why the Future...
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

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

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

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

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

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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

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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... →

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