76 Quotes by Bill Joy

Jini is different from the PC because there's no central control, no monopolist pulling the strings.

What's your personal computer, anyway? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

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.

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?

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.

It is formatted, and I’m tired of using vi. I get really bored.

You can’t solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.