black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Bill Joy

We can’t simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
BILL JOY

Ethical Issues Worry
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

Program Prove Sugar
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
BILL JOY

Like Loses Window
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
BILL JOY

Responsibility Taking Responsibility
What’s your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that’s always on your person.
BILL JOY

Computer Should Technology
The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren’t interested in maintaining it.
BILL JOY

Code Crank Maintaining Out Programmers
But no, I don’t generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
BILL JOY

Generally Spelling Mistake Trouble
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
BILL JOY

Good Limbo Place Wells
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
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
BILL JOY

Editors People Tired
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
BILL JOY

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

Competition Nice Program
Most of the bright people don’t work for you – no matter who you are.
BILL JOY

Management Matter People
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
BILL JOY

Knows Surprise System
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
BILL JOY

Dots Lasers Media
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.
BILL JOY

Intelligent Robots Small Steps

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Joy Quotes