Bill Joy Quotes

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

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

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

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

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

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

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

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

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

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

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

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

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

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.