Quotes by Bill Joy - Page 1

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
Good Place
Limbo
Wells
Good Place Good Place
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Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
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Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
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People
Smart
Sun
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I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
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Loses
Window
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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Sophisticated
Systems
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I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
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Keyboards
Keys
Wish
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But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.
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Program
Spell
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Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
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Responsibility
Taking Responsibility
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I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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Levels
Multiple
Thinking
Would Be
Undo
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But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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Mistake
Spelling
Spelling Mistakes
Trouble
Mistakes
Generally
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It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
Bored
I'm Tired
Tired
Using
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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Responsive
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The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
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Disposable
Next Steps
Selling
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The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
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Computing
Definitions
Standards
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I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
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Community
Editors
Thinking
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Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
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Management
Matter
People
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
Compatible
Display
Dots
Lasers
Media
Dot
Laser
Matrix
Printers
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Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
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Documents
Preparation
Screens
Document
Large
Require
Screen
Systems
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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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Reason
Use
Want
Screen
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We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
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Ethical Issues
Issues
Worry
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There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
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People
Smart
Smart People
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I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
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Display
Macintosh
Prove
Thinking
Everyone Think I Think
Proves
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Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
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Looks
Underwear
Want
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
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Surprised
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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Editors
Interesting
Interesting Things
Thinking
Editor
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Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
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Done
Littles
Way
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You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
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Technology
Management
Positive Life
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I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
Code
Display
Gave Up
Window
Gave
Rewritten
Windows
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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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Teamwork
Trying
Want
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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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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Competition
Nice
Program
Programs
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
Editors
Long Ago
Writing
Editor
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Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.
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Running
Care
Today
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
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Domain
Doom
Fate
Extend
Ultimately
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I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
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Market Share
Wonderful Thing
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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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Complaining
Complicated
Editors
People
Tired
Unix
Editor
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I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
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Amount
Effort
Tools
Fair
Fair Amount
Hard Thing
Proficient
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The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
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Commands
Fundamental
Mouse
Therefore
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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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Technology
Computer
Should
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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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Program
Prove
Sugar
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Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
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Technology
Responsibility
Today
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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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Intelligent
Robots
Small Steps
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You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
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Mirrors
Thinking
Views
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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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Research
Use
Way
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I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
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Albany
Apartment
Carter
Saturday
Sitting
Stupid
Stupid Questions
Questions
Designed
Editor
Elected
Screen
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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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Running
Data
Thinking
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So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.
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Chuck
Features
Hacked
Ripped
Stuff
Eventually
Looked
While
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I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
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Expensive
Labs
Copy
Wasted
Huge Amounts
Performance
Memory
Shared
Systems
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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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Journey
Knowledge
Common Sense
Desire
Development
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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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Technology
Asking
Technological Development
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