black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
BILL JOY

Competition Nice Program
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
BILL JOY

Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
BILL JOY

Responsive System Want
Operating systems are like underwear – nobody really wants to look at them.
BILL JOY

Looks Underwear Want
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
BILL JOY

Responsibility Taking Responsibility
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.
BILL JOY

Mirrors Thinking Views
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
BILL JOY

Teamwork Trying Want
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don’t have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
BILL JOY

Responsibility Technology Today
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
BILL JOY

Editors Interesting Thinking
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.
BILL JOY

Common Sense Desire Knowledge
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.
BILL JOY

Research Use Way
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?
BILL JOY

Asking Development Technological
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
BILL JOY

Lot Sophisticated Systems
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can’t extend its domain.
BILL JOY

Domain Doom Fate
I wish we hadn’t used all the keys on the keyboard.
BILL JOY

Keyboard Keys Wish
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
BILL JOY

Good Limbo Place Wells

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can’t prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It’s really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Joy Quotes