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Quotes by "Bill Joy"

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
Tags: sitting, remember, stupid, people
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
Tags: copy, performance, think, memory
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
— Bill Joy
Tags: good-place, well, place, good
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
— Bill Joy
Tags: display, i-think, everyone, think
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
— Bill Joy
Tags: matrix, dot, laser, media
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
— Bill Joy
Tags: tools, hard, think, effort
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
— Bill Joy
Tags: almost, had, windows, up
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
— Bill Joy
Tags: complicated, hard, tired, people
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