Bill Joy
Bill Joy
William Nelson "Bill" Joyis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
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 well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.
Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them.
A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.