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

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
BILL JOY

Community Editor Thinking
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
BILL JOY

Editors Interesting Thinking
I just don’t like to lose what’s in the window.
BILL JOY

Like Loses Window
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
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
BILL JOY

Good Limbo Place Wells
You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
BILL JOY

Life Management Positive Technology
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
BILL JOY

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

Competition Nice Program
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
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
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
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
BILL JOY

Dots Lasers Media
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.
BILL JOY

Knows Surprise System
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
BILL JOY

Care Running Today
The standard definition of AI is that which we don’t understand.
BILL JOY

Computing Definitions Standards
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