All Bill Joy Quotes
- There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than… Code
- 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… Art
- 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… Assume
- I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads… Bequeathed
- You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar. F Rtran
- There are always more smart people outside your company than within it. Company
- That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain. Domain
- Interleaf is based on the formatting process. Based
- I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. Based
- I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. Bitmapped
- I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. Funny
- I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. All
- Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. Competition
- Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. Funny
- The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive. Funny
- The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen. Inspirational
- Well, limbo is not a good place to be. Good
- 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… Access
- We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear. Encourage
- I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when… Centers