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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
Explore more quotes by Bill Joy
"I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated."
"That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain."
"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."
"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
"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."
"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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