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
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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 standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there.
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.
Jini is different from the PC because there's no central control, no monopolist pulling the strings.
Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.