Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However,… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. — Bill Joy Copy Share
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. — Bill Joy Copy Share
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. — Bill Joy Copy Share
“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.” — Bill Joy Copy Share
So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em… — Bill Joy Copy Share
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. — Bill Joy Copy Share
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. — Bill Joy Copy Share
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of… — Bill Joy Copy Share
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. — Bill Joy Copy Share
