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
Bill Joy quotes about
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.