Bill Joy Quotes

•  I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

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

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

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

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

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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 questions while I designed the screen editor.

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

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•  Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

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

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

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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 shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

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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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• Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bill Joy (28)

Birth:	8th November, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineer, Programmer

About

Bill Joy was born in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan. He 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 Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

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