#w

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. ↗

— Bill Joy

#albany #apartment #ask #call #carter

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. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

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

— Bill Joy

#i think #levels #multiple #think #too

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

— Bill Joy

#away #because #gave #good #i

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

— Bill Joy

#going #i #know #surprised #system

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

— Bill Joy

#i #i wish #keyboard #keys #used

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

#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #ireland #old #sow

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

#chuck #ed #eventually #features #hacked

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

— Bill Joy

#doom #extend #lack #probably #ultimately