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
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If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
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.
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
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.
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.