Bill Joy
Although Bill Joy developed vi as a replacement for ed, in a 1984 interview he explained that when visiting labs outside Sun, he would often use plain old ed - even though vi was already almost ubiquitous - because he could not count on the local version of vi working the way he expected.
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“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
“The record of one’s life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
“I have no name:
“I am but two days old.”
What shall I call thee?
“I happy am,
“Joy is my name.”
Sweet joy befall thee!”
—William Blake (1757–1827)