Bill Joy Quotes
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
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We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
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A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
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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.
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I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
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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.
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You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
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Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
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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.
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You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
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The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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