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

— Bill Joy

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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. ↗

— Bill Joy

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

— Bill Joy

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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. ↗

— Bill Joy

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

— Bill Joy

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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

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Interleaf is based on the formatting process. ↗

— Bill Joy

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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. ↗

— Bill Joy

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

— Bill Joy

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

— Bill Joy

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