Bill Joy
Bill Joy
William Nelson "Bill" Joyis an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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.
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.