Bill Joy

(1954) Computer Scientist

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Bill Joy is a computer scientist, best known for The Java language specification.

Quick Facts About Bill Joy

Born: November 8, 1954
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: The Java language specification

About Bill Joy

William Nelson Joy is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bill Joy · Page 3

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

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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…

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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

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Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.

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Bill Joy by topic

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