Bill Joy Quotes

• Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

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• Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

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

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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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• 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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• The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don’t think there is any point in having wars if that’s how you’re going to behave. It’s pathetic. All this whining!

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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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• The reason I use ed is that I don’t want to lose what’s on the screen.

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Bill Joy (28)

Birth:	8th November, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineer, Programmer

About

Bill Joy was born in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan. He is an American computer scientist. Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us", in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

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