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
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.
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.
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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.
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.