76 Quotes by Bill Joy

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

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.

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

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 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.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

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.