We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues. Bill Joy More Quotes by Bill Joy More Quotes From Bill Joy Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are. Bill Joy managementmatterpeople We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear. Bill Joy teamworkwanttrying 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? Bill Joy technological-developmenttechnologyasking There are always more smart people outside your company than within it. Bill Joy smart-peoplesmartpeople Take responsibility for the things you build and invent. Bill Joy taking-responsibilityresponsibility If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy. Bill Joy wallrunningmorning 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. Bill Joy researchuseway Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it. Bill Joy donelittlesway The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Unix was done this way... However, the corollary states that the innovation will occur elsewhere. No matter how many people you hire. So the only way to get close to the state of the art is to give the people who are going to be doing the innovative things the means to do it. That's why we had built-in source code with Unix. Open source is tapping the energy that's out there. Bill Joy meanpeopleart 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. Bill Joy common-sensedesireknowledge Interleaf is based on the formatting process. Bill Joy process I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. Bill Joy editorsinterestingthinking A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control. Bill Joy bombs Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them. Bill Joy underwearwantlooks I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. Bill Joy gave-upcodewindow The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. Bill Joy computingstandardsdefinitions I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. Bill Joy knows I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. Bill Joy keyboardskeyswish Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it. Bill Joy carerunningtoday Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems. Bill Joy smartsunpeople
